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Institute of Advanced Studies

Meeting on the

ASEANFederationof Physics Association23 March 2017Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

South East Asia Theoretical Physics Association

Contents

FOREWORD05

PROGRAMME06

09 DELEGATES’ BIOGRAPHIES

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We would like to welcome all of you to this Meeting on the ASEAN Federation of

Physics Association!

The Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was formed on August 8,

1967. ASEAN celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Although the original aim

for the formation of ASEAN revolve around the need for economic growth, social

progress and social cultural evolution, the region has steadily become visible for its

scientific activities in recent years. This inaugural meeting will be used as a platform

for the formation of closer collaborations among ASEAN countries for scientific

activities, and more specifically for stronger ties in Physics and Physics Education

in the region. This meeting will hopefully lead to the establishment of a Federation of

ASEAN Physical Societies. We hope that this Federation will enhance and promote

Physics activities in the region.

We welcome all to participate actively in this exciting meeting!

Professor Kok Khoo PhuaInstitute of Advanced StudiesNanyang Technological University, Singapore

FOREWORD

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PROGRAMME

8:30 am - 9:00 am Registration

9:00 am - 9:10 am Welcome address by Kok Khoo Phua, Director, IAS NTU

9:10 am - 9:30 am Talk by Chee King Tan, Deputy Director (ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community), ASEAN Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore

Session chaired by Anh Tuan Phan, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU

9:30 am - 9:45 am Brunei *Jimmy Lim, Director, Centre for Advanced Material & Energy Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

Mohammad Khairul Zarifi bin Haji Masri, Programme Leader, Applied Physics, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

9:45 am - 10:00 am Cambodia *Chan Oeurn Chey, Vice Dean of Research and International Relations, Faculty of Science, Royal University of Phnom Penh

10:00 am - 10:15 am Indonesia *Laksana Tri Handoko, Deputy Chairman, Indonesian Institute of Sciences

*Monika Raharti, Director, Center For Young Scientists

10:15 am - 10:30 am Laos *Khamphouth Phommasone, Director, The School for Gifted Students, National University of Laos

10:30 am - 10:45 am Malaysia *Kurunathan Ratnavelu, President, Malaysian Institute of Physics

*Hishamuddin Zainuddin, Deputy Director, Institute for Mathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia

*Clarissa Lee, Institute of Malaysia and International Studies, University Kebangsaan Malaysia

Venue: Function Hall 1 @ Nanyang Executive Centre, NTU

Speakers are indicated with a *

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PROGRAMMEVenue: Function Hall 1 @ Nanyang Executive Centre, NTU

10:45 am - 11:15 am Group Photo and Coffee Break

Session chaired by Pinaki Sengupta, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU

11:15 am - 11:30 am Philippines *Giovanni Tapang, Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas (Physics Society of the Philippines)

*Jose Perico Esguerra, University of the Philippines Diliman, National Institute of Physics

11:30 am - 11:45 am Thailand *Tanakorn Osotchan, Secretary General, Thai Physical Society

Burin Asavapibhop, Chulalongkorn University

Phongpichit Channuie, Walailak University

Norraphat Srimanobhas, Chulalongkorn University and CERN

11:45 am - 12:00 pm Vietnam *Nguyen Quang Liem, Vice-President, Vietnam Physical Society

Nguyen Mau Chung, Hanoi University of Science

Nguyen Thi Hong-Van, Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology

Nguyen Van Hieu, Ho Chi Minh City University of Science

12:00 pm - 12:15 pm Singapore *Rajdeep Rawat, President, Institute of Physics Singapore

Kok Khoo Phua, Founding Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU

Leong-Chuan Kwek, Deputy Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU

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PROGRAMME

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch

1:15 pm - 3:00 pm Roundtable discussion Chaired by Rajdeep Rawat, President, Institute of Physics Singapore

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee Break

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Skype session with CERN representatives

4:00 pm Lab tour at School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU

6:30 pm Dinner at Bumbu Restaurant (Farrer) (by invitation only)

Venue: Function Hall 1 @ Nanyang Executive Centre, NTU

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DELEGATES’ BIOGRAPHIES

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore)

Chee King TanDeputy Director (ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community),ASEAN Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore

Email: [email protected]

Chee King Tan is Deputy Director (ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Singapore. Chee King has previously served in the Singapore High Commission in Kuala Lumpur from 2011 to 2015, as well as in the Southeast Asia Directorate of the MFA. Chee King was trained in the Department of Materials Science, NUS, and had worked in the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) and Nanomaterials Technology Pte Ltd, prior to joining MFA in 2008.

Jimmy LimDirector, Centre for Advanced Material & Energy Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam


Dr Jimmy Lim is Director of the Centre for Advanced Material & Energy Sciences, and Senior Assistant Professor in Applied Physics at the Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). He obtained his BScEd from UBD, before going on to pursue his MPhil at University of Wales and PhD from Warwick University. His research interests include energy efficiency in built environments, energy modelling and functional materials.

Brunei

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Chan Oeurn CheyVice Dean of Research and International Relations, Faculty of Science, Royal University of Phnom Penh


Prof Chan Oeurn Chey (PhD) graduated from Department of Science and Technology, Institute of Technology, Linköping University, Sweden in January 2015. Currently, he is Vice Dean, in charge of research and international relation, of the Faculty of Science, RUPP and he is a member of the Strategic and Planning Team to the Board of Trustee, member of the academic council and member of research committee of Royal University of Phnom Penh. He is also a member of Education Research Council of the Ministry of Education Youth and Sport. He works in several positions at RUPP, as teacher for undergraduate and graduate programmes in Physics, programme coordinator for Master of Science in Physics, and trainer and team leader for the Cambodian team for the Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO), International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) and Astronomy Olympiad competitions. He also supervises many Cambodian Young Scientist candidates who compete in the Regional Congress on the Search for SEAMEO Young Scientists (SSYS).

Cambodia

Mohammad Khairul Zarifi bin Haji MasriProgramme Leader, Applied Physics, Universiti Brunei Darussalam


Dr Zarifi Masri is a lecturer in Applied Physics at the Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) where he has been a faculty member since 2006. He first joined UBD as a tutor in the same department in 2004 soon after finishing his BSc Physics degree from University of Nottingham, UK. He continued his study with an MSc by Research degree in Materials Physics and Applications from Loughborough University in 2006. He pursued further research training in organic solar cells in the group led by Professor Ifor Samuel at the Organic Semiconductor Centre in University of St Andrews, UK and completed his PhD degree in 2014. His research interests include organic solar cells, exciton diffusion and fluorescence sensing. Currently, he is the programme leader for the Applied Physics programme at UBD.

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Indonesia

Laksana Tri HandokoDeputy Chairman for Engineering Sciences, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)


Prof L.T. Handoko is the Deputy Chairman for Engineering Sciences LIPI and member of the Group for Theoretical and Computational Physics Research Center for Physics LIPI. He obtained his BSc in Theoretical Physics from Kumamoto University, and both his MSc and PhD in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics from Hiroshima University, Japan. He was previously Director of the Research Center for Informatics LIPI (2012-2014) and Group Head of the Group for Theoretical and computational Physics, Research Centre for Physics LIPI (2002-2012). He is also a member of the Indonesian Physical Society (HFI), American Physical Society (APS) and Japan Physical Society (JPS).

Monika RahartiDirector, Center For Young Scientists


Dr Monika Raharti has been working in science education both nationally within her country, Indonesia, and internationally in the last 10 years. After graduating with her master degree in 1997 from the Physics Department in Bandung Institute of Technology, she worked as an assistant professor in the Physics Department of several universities in Indonesia: Parahyangan Catholic University, Telecom University, National Institute of Technology, and Surya University. Her passion in fostering young scientists brought her to focus on developing the environment of research in secondary school level. Dr Raharti currently serves as a member in the steering committees of several international and national research competitions, and represented Indonesia in the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies, as a starting point of her networking with worldwide institutions to provide opportunities for students in the Asia Pacific region in their career as young scientists.

Founding and leading the Center for Young Scientists in Indonesia in 2006, Dr Raharti supports science teachers with seminars, conferences, and workshops together with the Ministry of Education of Indonesia, and both academic and non-academic institutions in Indonesia and overseas. She is the founder of the Association of Science Mentor Teacher Indonesia (AGPPI) and the Asia Pacific Conference of Young Scientists, and currently serving as President.

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Clarissa Ai Ling LeeInstitute of Malaysia and International Studies, University Kebangsaan Malaysia


Dr Clarissa Ai Ling Lee is a research associate with the Institute of Malaysia and International Studies at the University Kebangsaan Malaysia. She is working on two projects: the history of physics in Malaysia and Singapore, and the history of nuclear science and technology as big science in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. She received her PhD from Duke University, where she wrote a dissertation titled “Speculative Physics: the Ontology of Theory and Experiment in High Energy Physics and Science Fiction”, and which she is turning into a book and series of articles. She has published a piece on cybernetics, the Monte Carlo method, and the future potential in high performance computing in physics in Kybernetes, which is an expanded version of a chapter from her dissertation. She has more work from her previous and current projects forthcoming and under preparation.

Malaysia

Khamphouth PhommasoneDirector, The School for Gifted Students, National University of Laos


Prof Khamphouth Phommasone is the Vice-Director of the National University of Laos. He is also the Director of the School for Gifted Students, National University of Laos, and a Geo-physics lecturer for the International Science Programme, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Laos

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Kurunathan RatnaveluPresident, Malaysian Institute of Physics


Prof Kurunathan Ratnavelu is currently the President of Malaysian Institute of Physics (Institut Fizik Malaysia) for 2015-2017. He has served as the Honorary Secretary of the Institut Fizik Malaysia for the period 1996-2011. He obtained his BSc (Hons) and his MSc by research from the Department of Mathematics, University Malaya and furthered his PhD study in Atomic Physics at Flinders University in 1985 with a Flinders Research Scholarship. He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia in 2005. In 2006, he was awarded the Inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award by Flinders University. His main research interests are in Theoretical Atomic Collision Processes with specific interest in positron collisions with atoms. His recent interest is in Complex Network Analysis. His outstanding contributions are in the recent development and the demonstration of an optical potential method to positron-hydrogen atom scattering process and its extension to other hydrogenic-type atoms.

Hishamuddin ZainuddinDeputy Director, Institute for Mathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia


Prof Hishamuddin Zainuddin is an associate professor from the Department of Physics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, and Deputy Director for the Institute for Mathematical Research. He graduated from the University of Adelaide with a BSc (Hons), and went on to obtain his Certificate for Advanced Study in Mathematics (Part III of Mathematical Tripos) from the University of Cambridge, and his PhD from the University of Durham. He is a Fellow of Malaysian Institute of Physics and a life member of Malaysian Solid State Science & Technology Society. He does research in the areas of quantization, quantum foundations & quantum information, mathematical cosmology, complex networks and other areas of mathematical physics. He is also a founding member of Malaysia-Italy Centre of Excellence for Mathematical Sciences.

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Jose Perico EsguerraNational Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman


Prof Jose Perico Esguerra is currently the coordinator of the Theoretical Physics Group at the National Institute of Physics (NIP), University of the Philippines Diliman. He was the President of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas (Physics Society of the Philippines) and is a Member of the Technical Committee for Physics of the Commission on Higher Education in the Philippines. He is heavily involved in efforts by the Department of Education and the Commission on Higher Education to create curriculum guides, teacher’s guides, and learning materials for physics in the senior High Schools in Philippines.

Prof Esguerra leads a subgroup of the Theoretical Physics Group. In addition to the NIP BS, MS, and PhD students whom he supervises, he also mentors students from the Philippines Science High School and undergraduate physics students from other universities in the Philippines during the Mid-Year Term. His research interests include statistical mechanics, random walks and diffusion, physical applications of fractional calculus, mathematical physics, self-gravitating systems, and nonlinear systems. He has supervised four past recipients of CERN Summer Studentships.

Philippines

Khin Khin WinProfessor and Head, Department of Physics University of Yangon, Myanmar


Professor Khin Khin Win is a professor and Head at the Department of Physics, University of Yangon. She received her PhD in Information Technology from the joint collaboration of the University of Yangon, Myanmar, and Sejong University, the Republic of Korea. She was awarded her BSc (Hons) and MSc by the University of Yangon, Myanmar. She is the Chairperson for the Physics Curriculum & Syllabus Committee for Basic Education, Board of Studies for High Education (Physics) and the PhD Steering Committee (Physics, Yangon). She is also a member of the Institute of Physics (IOP).

Myanmar

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Giovanni TapangSamahang Pisika ng Pilipinas (Physics Society of the Philippines)


Prof Giovanni Tapang is a professor at the National Institute of Physics and Associate Dean for Student and Public Affairs at the College of Science, University of the Philippines. He is also Second Vice-President of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas (Physics Society of the Philippines).

Prof Tapang was the recipient of several grants and awards, including VISSER (Versatile Instrumentation System for Science Education and Research), the Commission on Higher Education CHED REPUBLICA Award 2004, and the Gawad Tsanselor Pinakamahusay na Nilathalang Pananaliksik (Science and Technology Cluster). Currently, he is also a member of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and Editor-in-Chief of the Diliman Review.

Singapore

Kok Khoo PhuaFounding Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU


Prof Phua is the Founding and Executive Director of IAS, NTU. He is also the co-Chairman of the Global Young Scientists Summit organised by the National Research Foundation, and the Chairman of the Annual International Science Youth Forum (Nobel Forum) jointly organised by IAS and Hwa Chong Institution, supported by A*STAR and Ministry of Education. Prof Phua is also the Secretary General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).

Together with Nobel Laureate Prof C N Yang and other senior physicists, Prof Phua is one of the founding council members of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS). A Fellow of the American Physical Society and an Advisory Board Member of Singapore-China Association for Advanced Science and Technology, Prof Phua is also the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd.

In recognition of his contribution to physics and scientific publishing, he was conferred an honorary doctorate degree by the University of Birmingham, UK in November 2013. Prof Phua was also conferred the Si Yuan Guest Professorship by the University of Nottingham Ningbo China in April 2014, and the Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS) Fellowship in May 2014.

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Rajdeep Singh RawatPresident, Institute of Physics Singapore


Prof Rajdeep Singh Rawat is an Associate Professor in Physics at Natural Sciences and Science Education, NIE, NTU. Prof Rajdeep’s main research interest involves performing fundamental studies on pulsed plasma devices such as Dense Plasma focus (DPF) and Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) and their applications to wide variety of areas such as: neutron source for novel material testing for first wall of fusion reactor and explosive material detection, radioisotopes synthesis, soft x-ray lithography, soft and hard x-ray imaging, material modification, and nano-structured material synthesis. He has extensive experience in various basic plasma and nuclear diagnostic techniques. His current research focus is graphene and transition metal nitrides/oxides based three dimensional porous nanostructured hybrid assemblies for energy storage applications and magnetic materials for data storage and spintronics applications.

After joining NTU, he has participated in 28 research grants since 2001 with 16 as principal investigator with 8 of them from external/industrial sources. He graduated 4 MSc and 11 PhD students and is currently supervising 2 PhD students. He has published about 190 Journal papers and over 70 conference papers with > 3200 citations and H-index of 31. He also holds a patent on “New Fast Absolute Neutron Detector”. He is President of the Asian African Association for Plasma Training (which has 52 member institutions in 24 countries) since 2012 and President of the Institute of Physics Singapore since 2016.

Leong-Chuan KwekDeputy Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU and National University of Singapore


Prof Leong-Chuan Kwek is a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore and the Deputy Director of Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanyang Technological University. He is also the Deputy Secretary General for the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and a council member of IUPAP Working Group 5 on Women in Physics. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK and a council member of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS).

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Burin AsavapibhopChulalongkorn University


Dr Burin Asavapibhop is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. He is a Group Leader of the Particle Physics Research Laboratory, Thailand Centre of Excellence in Physics. He is also the Team Leader of Bangkok participating in the CMS Collaboration.

Thailand

Norraphat SrimanobhasChulalongkorn University and CERN


Dr Norraphat Srimanobhas is a lecturer at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University. He gives several lectures including particle physics, analysis tools, and statistics in particle physics.

His research interest focuses on physics beyond the Standard Model, including Dark Matter and Magnetic Monopole searches at the CMS detector. He is also interested in Grid Computing and he joins the effort of National e-Science Infrastructure Consortium to setup CMS Tier-2 in Thailand.

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Tanakorn OsotchanSecretary General, Thai Physical Society


Prof Tanakorn Osotchan is a professor at the Department of Physics, Mahidol University, and Secretary General of the Thai Physical Society. He obtained his PhD from Macquarie University, Australia. His research expertise is in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Biomedical Sensors and Semiconductor Physics.

Phongpichit ChannuieWalailak University


Phongpichit Channuie was born in the southern part of Thailand. He entered the Prince of Songkla University in 2000 and obtained his BSc in physics in 2004. Upon graduation, he decided to continue his master program in physics at the same university and received his master’s degree in 2006. After receiving his master degree, he became a faculty of the Kasetsart University (KU) and spent his time at the KU for almost 2 years. In 2008, he was awarded a full-time scholarship from the Thai Government and entered the Centre for Cosmology and Particle Physics Phenomenology (CP³-Origins) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). At the SDU, he and his collaborators investigated a number of models of inflation in which the inflaton emerges as a composite state stemming from different kinds of four-dimensional strongly interacting gauge theories. He obtained his MSc in 2010, and finally his PhD in 2012. Shortly after receiving this last degree, he returned to the KU and then moved to Walailak University (WU) in 2013. He was promoted to assistant professor in 2015. At WU, he continued his career in physics and devoted his energies to investigate models of inflation and their cosmological implications. His research articles were published in prestigious journals of high-energy physics and cosmology, e.g. PRD and JCAP. Currently, his research works involve not only cosmological frameworks but also other disciplines, e.g. dark matter and condensed matter physics.

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Vietnam

Nguyen Thi Hong-Van Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology


Dr Nguyen Thi Hong Van holds a PhD from the University of Paris Diderot and IRFU, CEA (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique) in Saclay, France for her studies in experimental high energy physics. She is currently a Principle Researcher at the Institute of Physics (IOP), Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST). She is also a physics lecturer for undergraduate students at the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH). She is a former PhD fellow at CEA, Saclay, France. Her fields of research interest include Experimental Particle Physics, Phenomenological Particle Physics (Neutrino Physics and Higgs Physics) and Mathematical Physics (SUSY, quantum groups and integrable systems).

Dr Nguyen is trained and skilled in using main programming software, such as C++, and others Scientific Programming Software such as ROOT and Mathematica. She is known to speak three different languages as well, namely Vietnamese (native), English (Fluent) and French (Beginner). Dr Nguyen is part of several organising committees that host several workshops and conference in Hanoi, Vietnam. She also serves as an assistant to the organisers on several workshops and conference in Vietnam. Dr Nguyen gave several lectures (in English) on several occasions for several research institutes in Vietnam.

Nguyen Quang LiemVice-President, Vietnam Physical Society


Prof Nguyen Quang Liem is a Senior Researcher, Professor and Director of the Institute of Materials Science (IMS) at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST). He is also Co-Director of the Department of Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH). His research interest lies in the field of the synthesis technology for materials preparation, particular attention to the quantum structure/nanocrystals, the synthesis of various quantum dots, the study of various physical processes related to the electrons and holes generated by photo-excitation, as well as the study of mechanisms for high-efficiency luminescence in quantum dots by means of spectroscopic techniques.

Prof Nguyen is also Vice-President of the Vietnam Physical Society, member of the AAPPS Council, and Editor of the Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Journal, a joint publication by IOP Publishing and VAST. He has published over 120 journal papers and conference proceedings. In 2005, he shared the National Award for Science and Technology with nine other contributors.

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Nguyen Van HieuHo Chi Minh City, University of Science


Prof Nguyen Van Hieu received his bachelor and master degree in Ho Chi Minh City University, Vietnam in 1994 and 2000. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the Graduate School of Science in Osaka University (Japan, 2007). In 2010, he was invited as visiting professor for the project of UVLED by Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He was also invited as researcher for the Lab of Semiconducting Technology (Saigon Hi-Tech Park, since 2011). From Dec 2008 to Sep 2010, he served as Dean of Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications. He was appointed an associate professor in 2011. He was a vice-chair of the National Development Microelectronics program in Ho Chi Minh (2012-2014). Currently, he is head of the Department of Physics and Electronic Engineering, and Head of the Office of International Relations - Projects Management.

He is also a member of the Physics Society of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City, a member of the editorial board and head of the representative office of the Journal of the Korean Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IKEEE) in Vietnam.

Nguyen Mau Chung Hanoi University of Science


Prof Nguyen Mau Chung is Superior Lecturer and Associate Professor of Particle Physics at the Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam. He obtained his PhD in Particle Physics (Docteur ès Sciences) from the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland, doing research in direct photon from proton-antiproton collisions when he participated in the UA6 experiment at the accelerator Spp̄S of CERN. He was part of the NOMAD (Neutrino Oscillation Magnetic Detector) experiment at CERN and in the same time, he also worked at the Nuclear Physics Institute (IPN) at UNIL.

In 2000, Prof Nguyen returned to Vietnam and took up a position in the Nuclear Department at the Hanoi University of Science (HUS). He taught two courses in Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics for the undergraduate and graduate students of HUS. He continues to participate in the LHCb experiment with the help of the Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LPHE) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

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